Security & Privacy
A federal jury awarded Columbia University more than $185 million in damages after finding that NortonLifeLock Inc. willfully and literally infringed two patents related to groundbreaking cybersecurity safeguards invented at Columbia by CS professor Salvatore Stolfo and Angelos Keromytis.
The award will help fund research and support the work of a graduate student.
Yung was honored for his groundbreaking research and implementation of cryptographic technologies that ensure secure, scalable internet and mobile computing.
About
The security group works on a diverse set of security and privacy issues arising across the software/hardware stack.
The key research goal of the group is to design, develop, and deploy principled solutions for improving the security and privacy aspects of computer systems.
The group has a broad set of expertise ranging from systems security to designing privacy policies. It is a highly collaborative group and most of their students are co-advised by multiple faculty members.
Intrusion Detection Systems